Boston Roundup: Facebook, Sold, Rethink Robotics, RallyPoint

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Hey look, a story that has nothing to do with the Twitter IPO! How unusual. Instead, we’ve got a few news tidbits about tech companies big and small opening offices, getting acquired, and raising money:

—Facebook, infamously started in the Boston area before decamping to California, is finally publicly acknowledging that it’s set up an engineering office here. The news comes via a Facebook post (of course) from Boston-area office leader Ryan Mack, who writes that he moved to the area more than two years ago when his wife got a job at a biotech startup. Boston.com reported in August that the company was securing an office in Cambridge’s Kendall Square.

—Sold, an e-commerce startup founded by MIT Media Lab alumni, has itself been sold. The employees are joining Dropbox in what looks like a classic talent acquisition: Sold’s app is no longer accepting new customers and will be shut down. The startup, which was less than a year old, aimed to help consumers resell high-end gadgets by bundling automatic price estimates, shipping, and payments. It had raised about $1.2 million from Google Ventures, Greylock Partners, and others.